Williams won a silver medal in Sochi in the two-woman event to join an elite club of medallists at both the Summer and Winter Games.

Other American athletes – sprinter Tianna Bartoletta and heptathlete Hyleas Fountain – also competed at bobsleigh following London 2012, while Britons Allyn Condon and Craig Pickering are among others who have competed in both sports.

The last male Summer Olympian to make a US Olympic bobsleigh team was 1968 110m hurdles champion Willie Davenport, who finished 12th in the four-man at Lake Placid 1980.

American Eddie Eagan, who won boxing gold in the light heavyweight division at Antwerp 1920, became the first – and so far only – person to win gold medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympics in different events when he added four-man bobsleigh gold in Lake Placid in 1932.

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